Jesse Hale is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Nashville, Tennessee.
His practice spans both traditional and new media, including drawing, painting, darkroom process, installation, and generative, technology-driven environments. Over the past decade, Hale’s work has revolved primarily around ceilings, walls, and windows as symbols for limitation and possibility, as well as conduits for light and dark. Noise, or randomness, serves as a space in which these symbols are encoded, transmitted, and received, revealing structure in chaos. Much of his oeuvre is an evolving series of charcoal drawings on paper. Over the years, however, he has explored other avenues such as analog halftone film images, chandeliers of screen-printed window panes, and, recently, a responsive audiovisual installation modulated by real-time EEG brain data and machine learning. His work has been featured in local exhibitions at Browsing Room Gallery, Open Gallery, 21C Museum Hotel, Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville, O’More College of Design, and Fort Houston. Professionally, Hale works as a stage designer for pop performers such as Katy Perry, Lil Nas X, J Balvin, and Shakira.
